Author, as appears in the article.: Llaurado, Elisabet; Tarro, Lucia; Morina, David; Queral, Rosa; Giralt, Montse; Sola, Rosa;
Department: Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques Medicina i Cirurgia Medicina i Cirurgia Medicina i Cirurgia
URV's Author/s: Giralt Batista, Montserrat / Llauradó Ribé, Elisabet / QUERAL CASANOVA, ROSA / Solà Alberich, Rosa Maria / Tarro Sánchez, Lucía
Keywords: Public health Protocol Project Prevent childhood obesity Prevalence Physical-activity Overweight International survey Europe Controlled-trial Adolescents primary care preventive medicine paediatrics
Abstract: To assess the reproducibility of an educational intervention EdAl-2 (Educació en Alimentació) programme in 'Terres de l'Ebre' (Spain), over 22 months, to improve lifestyles, including diet and physical activity (PA).Reproduction of a cluster randomised controlled trial.Two semi-rural town-group primary-school clusters were randomly assigned to the intervention or control group.Pupils (n=690) of whom 320 constituted the intervention group (1 cluster) and 370 constituted the control group (1 cluster). Ethnicity was 78% Western European. The mean age (±SD) was 8.04±0.6 years (47.7% females) at baseline. Inclusion criteria for clusters were towns from the southern part of Catalonia having a minimum of 500 children aged 7-8 year; complete data for participants, including name, gender, date and place of birth, and written informed consent from parents or guardians.The intervention focused on eight lifestyle topics covered in 12 activities (1 h/activity/session) implemented by health promoting agents in the primary school over three academic years.The primary outcome was obesity (OB) prevalence and the secondary outcomes were body mass index (BMI) collected every year and dietary habits and lifestyles collected by questionnaires filled in by parents at baseline and end-of-study.At 22 months, the OB prevalence and BMI values were similar in intervention and control groups. Relative to children in control schools, the percentage of boys in the intervention group who performed ?4 after-school PA h/week was 15% higher (p=0.027), whereas the percentage of girls in both groups remained similar. Also, 16.6% more boys in the intervention group watched ?2 television (TV) h/day (p=0.009), compared to controls; and no changes were observed in girls in both groups.Our school-based intervention is feasible and reproducible by increasing after-school PA (to ?4 h/week) in boys. Despite this improvement, there was no change in BMI and prevalence of OB.Clinical Trials NCT01362023.Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions.
Thematic Areas: Saúde coletiva Psicología Odontología Nutrição Medicine, general & internal Medicine (miscellaneous) Medicine (all) Medicina veterinaria Medicina iii Medicina ii Medicina i Interdisciplinar General medicine Farmacia Ensino Enfermagem Educação física Ciências biológicas iii Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Ciências ambientais Ciência da computação Biotecnología
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 20446055
Author's mail: elisabet.llaurado@urv.cat montse.giralt@urv.cat rosa.sola@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-7439-9531 0000-0002-7073-577X 0000-0002-8359-235X
Record's date: 2024-09-07
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Bmj Open. 4 (11): e005496-
APA: Llaurado, Elisabet; Tarro, Lucia; Morina, David; Queral, Rosa; Giralt, Montse; Sola, Rosa; (2014). EdAl-2 (Educacio en Alimentacio) programme: reproducibility of a cluster randomised, interventional, primary-school-based study to induce healthier lifestyle activities in children. Bmj Open, 4(11), e005496-. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005496
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2014
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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